First Tiguan 2.0 BiTurbo 240 HP Acceleration Test Is Here

We still remember the Tiguan motor show reveal. Volkswagen said there would be a million different engines, but it didn't detail anything. People were told the outputs would go from 110 to 240 PS, so we naturally expected the BiTurbo TDI would count as the flagship.

After that had come the Dieselgate scandal and Volkswagen was shaking in its pants. Many presumed the Tiguan wasn't going to get that many diesel engines, but the 240 PS monster has eventually found its way under the hood.

Thomas from Autogefuhl seems to be the first to test it out, and he published a short acceleration video before his traditional hour-long review. It's not one of those fancy tests where they use GPS to track the speed or even a counter. Once we get a better acceleration test, we'll add it to the story.

The point is that while the Tiguan 2.0 BiTDI is fast, it's not going to blow you away. The acceleration is impressive, but German engineers didn't design it to be exciting, just fast, like a GT equivalent of an SUV.

No technical data is available anywhere on the internet, not even to download on Volkswagen's official website. That's because the 2.0 BiTDI engine isn't on sale yet. But we suspect it will post 0 to 100 km/h of around 7 seconds or less, thanks mainly to that tower of torque.

That's almost too fast for a family crossover, which the Tiguan technically still is. Somehow, we doubt that even the most hardcore German businessman needs something that can drag race a Renault Clio RS.

For the sake of the comparison, here's the Passat with the same configuration